KDE too slow with all file operations

[Daniela]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 18:38, Daniela wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2003 23:12, doug wrote:
> > > On 4.8-STABLE, KDE takes two minutes extra to startup, to open the
> > > "save as" or "open" dialogs, open local directories with Konqueror, ...
> > >
> > > Seems like everything related to local files is much slower than before
> > > (on 5.0-CURRENT/RELEASE). It's the same computer and the same version
> > > of KDE, so I think it is either a problem with the OS or with my files.
> > > Everything on my system is self-compiled.
> > >
> > > I suspected this could be the result of restoring the home directories
> > > and the distfiles from my previous installation. Now I don't think the
> > > home directories are the cause, as this problem affects newly created
> > > users as well.
> > >
> > > Do you think it would help to recompile KDE, or are the distfiles for
> > > 4.8 and 5.0 not the same? Or could the problem be XFree86, not KDE?
> >
> > I have had this happen on 4.x with a laptop. Try clearing all sockets
> > from /tmp, especially mcop-xxxx. After that clear all the .mcop files
> > from your home directory.
> >  I have also caused this by having icons on my desktop that have nfs
> > references.
>
> Thanks for your reply, but that didn't help at all.
>
> Instead I found some error messages on the shell where I typed startx:
>
>
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.8 i386 [ELF]
> Build Date: 05 May 2003
>         Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Tue May  6 18:10:46 2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon"
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
> startkde: Starting up...
> kbuildsycoca running...
>
> >> running as realtime process now (priority 15)
>
> mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
> bitBlt: Incompatible destination pixmap
>
>
> What does this mean?


Found out some new stuff:

KWrite starts up quickly, but Kate does not.
So I guess Kate creates temporary files.
Could the problem be related to my /tmp partition?
Should I try to turn SoftUpdates off, or reformat the partition?
Is it possible that this is a filesystem bug?

Daniela